Krok Dariusz, Telka Ewa, Moroń Marcin
Institute of Psychology, University of Opole, Pl. Staszica 1, 45-052, Opole, Poland.
Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Gliwice, Poland.
J Relig Health. 2025 Jun 14. doi: 10.1007/s10943-025-02358-8.
Spirituality has been found to have some protective effect against pain experiences in cancer patients, but its role in alleviating total pain is not well understood. Intervening factors such as meaning in life and coping with pain also have not been closely examined in cancer patients. This study investigated the serial mediating effects of meaning in life and pain coping on the relationship between spirituality-conceptualized in terms of religious attitudes, ethical sensitivity, and inner harmony-and total pain, which encompasses physical, psychological, social, and spiritual struggles among post-treatment cancer patients. A total of 285 patients (52.8% female) who had completed their treatment filled in self-report measures of spirituality, meaning in life, pain coping strategies, and total pain. Inner harmony was negatively related to physical pain, psychological pain, social pain, and spiritual pain. In contrast, religiosity was not related to any dimensions of total pain. Yet, religiosity was positively related to the use of some pain coping strategies, including diverting attention, reinterpreting pain sensations, ignoring sensations, praying and hoping, and increasing activities. The main indirect effect of spirituality as a latent variable on total pain occurred through presence of meaning, search for meaning, and three pain coping strategies: diverting attention, catastrophizing, and ignoring sensations. The findings indicate a serial mediation model in which the relationship of spirituality as a latent construct with total pain is mediated through two types of mediators (meaning in life and pain coping). Therefore, religiosity, ethical sensitivity and inner harmony taken together as a latent variable could be associated with lower pain due to finding meaning in life, avoiding unreflective coping, and diverting attention from aversive experience of pain.
研究发现,精神性对癌症患者的疼痛体验具有一定的保护作用,但其在缓解整体疼痛方面的作用尚未得到充分理解。诸如生活意义和应对疼痛等干预因素在癌症患者中也未得到深入研究。本研究调查了生活意义和疼痛应对在精神性(从宗教态度、道德敏感性和内心和谐方面进行概念化)与整体疼痛之间关系中的系列中介作用,整体疼痛包括治疗后癌症患者的身体、心理、社会和精神层面的挣扎。共有285名完成治疗的患者(52.8%为女性)填写了关于精神性、生活意义、疼痛应对策略和整体疼痛的自我报告量表。内心和谐与身体疼痛、心理疼痛、社会疼痛和精神疼痛呈负相关。相比之下,宗教信仰与整体疼痛的任何维度均无关联。然而,宗教信仰与一些疼痛应对策略的使用呈正相关,这些策略包括转移注意力、重新诠释疼痛感觉、忽视感觉、祈祷和期望以及增加活动。作为一个潜在变量的精神性对整体疼痛的主要间接效应是通过生活意义的存在、对意义的探寻以及三种疼痛应对策略产生的:转移注意力、灾难化思维和忽视感觉。研究结果表明了一种系列中介模型,即作为一个潜在结构的精神性与整体疼痛之间的关系是通过两种中介因素(生活意义和疼痛应对)来介导的。因此,将宗教信仰、道德敏感性和内心和谐作为一个潜在变量综合起来,可能与因在生活中找到意义、避免不加思考的应对方式以及将注意力从疼痛的厌恶体验中转移而导致的较低疼痛相关。
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